Five Myths of orthodontics 1: Only children can receive orthodontic treatment There is no age limit to orthodontics.
Of course, teenagers have a fast metabolism, strong ability to adapt, and the time required for orthodontics is relatively short.
But this is by no means to say that orthodontics is limited to minors.
Adult patients can accept orthodontic treatment as long as the periodontal condition of their teeth allows.
Mistake two: the teeth after correction are easy to loose and fall off.
This is classic pseudoscience.
Confuse orthodontics with periodontal disease.
For a simple example, the history of modern orthodontics is only one hundred years, while hundreds of years ago when there was no orthodontics, the old people at that time had more severe tooth loss. It can be seen that tooth loss has nothing to do with orthodontics.
Undeniably, due to the stress and alveolar bone remodeling in the process of tooth correction, the degree of loosening will increase, but when the end of orthodontic treatment, the teeth will no longer be forced after the recovery, there is no future loosening and falling off the problem.
Myth three: orthodontic need to pull teeth, will affect the health of the body.
A clinical study at a Swedish university found that tooth extraction can affect a person’s memory.
Since it is scientific research, we must pay attention to evidence, individual one or two research reports do not explain the problem at all.
Tooth extraction is a very common and mature treatment, and tooth extraction will not cause any adverse effects on the patient’s function and health.
It should be said that tooth extraction treatment is also a choice of choice, Oriental facial characteristics are not tall and straight nose, lips more protrusion, in order to achieve a better facial shape, many patients (60%) are required to extract teeth.
Mistake four: the orthodontic time is long, the cost is high, the porcelain crown repair course is short, once and for all.
Teeth are different from machines. Tooth movement itself is a physiological process, and the speed of treatment is limited by normal physiology.
Adult corrections usually take a year and a half to two years.
Although the treatment course of porcelain crown is short, the dentures are still dentures, and the later maintenance and long-term prognosis (it is generally recommended to replace porcelain crown once every five to ten years) should not be ignored, which is not a lifelong restoration as some doctors have advertised.
Misunderstanding five: tooth band is not beautiful, affect work and life.
Modern orthodontic technology is highly developed, and there are more and more kinds of braces, which can completely achieve invisible correction.
And with the progress of technology, the indications of stealth correction are more and more wide, and some difficult cases previously regarded as taboo can also be very good stealth correction, almost no impact on work and life.
